Hi!
Last weekend I did a striping tape design! (I felt like I should do something a little more complex after my messy lil' Mr. Candiipants floral)
I was originally just trying to get my untrieds off the shelf, and I was thinking it wasn't going to be a blog-worthy mani. BUT striping tape ended up being my friend, and JINsoon Mica ended up being gorgeous, so here ya go!
Last weekend I did a striping tape design! (I felt like I should do something a little more complex after my messy lil' Mr. Candiipants floral)
I was originally just trying to get my untrieds off the shelf, and I was thinking it wasn't going to be a blog-worthy mani. BUT striping tape ended up being my friend, and JINsoon Mica ended up being gorgeous, so here ya go!
| Polishes used: Bases, index to pinky | JINsoon Mica, Revlon Spirit, Julie G Silver Bells, JINson Mica For the triangles | JINsoon Jasper and Azurite |
Let me just say striping tape and I have had a rocky past. Even when my nails are completely dry, it finds a way to nick the polish... or it doesn't adhere to the nail properly and polish gets under it, ruining the design... or I lose the end of the roll of tape and mess up my nails trying to find it again...
But this time I'm happy with my result!
(the smudging was the top coat's fault, not the striping tape's -- for once!)
I was originally intending to do two nails with triangles, but then I realized I hadn't shown you guys the Julie G polish I picked up over the holidays! Or maybe I was just lazy and didn't want to fiddle with the striping tape on another nail :3
Okay, now I get to talk about JINsoon Mica!
| JINsoon Mica, two coats with NYC top coat |
I just wish every polish could be like Mica. It's opaque in one coat (shown is two, because I missed part of my nail with the first one whoops) and it has little shimmery bits that are gorgeous and refined-looking in the shade and gorgeous and holo-esque in the sun!
| I also looove the square bottles :3 |
Slightly off-topic, but funny story: I got the whole Tibi collection as a gift (my relatives sure know what I like, haha!) and a little while after I got it I saw All Lacqured Up's swatches of the collection and I was like "I NEED THAT" and then a couple of days later I realized I already had it... and then I forgot and let them languish on my untrieds shelf for another month. I'm such a spoiled child.
I think I need to do nail art featuring the whole Tibi collection, they're just so impossibly gorgeous! And wow, this post has gotten really long, so I guess I'll stop rambling.
Oh, wait, one more thing. I hit 100 likes on the Nail Snail's Facebook page!
You guys are the best :D
Thanks for reading & be sure to let me know what you think!
Lucy xx